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Bri McDonald is an artist, teacher, and regular consumer of media based out of San Antonio, TX. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Texas at San Antonio, she received her BFA at Texas State University. As a consumer and excavator of the digital, she employs hybridized collage media of image, object, and light to both seduce and unsettle when these fragments are brought together. She exposes personal questions and impulses in an attempt to create universal connections between audience, artwork, and the personal archive we contend with. Bri has shown her work in galleries throughout her home of San Antonio and Central Texas. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the University Of Texas at San Antonio. Currently, she is an Artist in Residence at Clark High School, where she is working on large-scale public artworks with their art students
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Artist Type: Media Arts: Media/Visual Communications, New Media/Technology; Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Mixed Media Artist, Muralist, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor, Textiles
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
As a regular consumer of media, I walk within a shared space where more information is created than can ever be consumed. Inside this landscape of digital oblivion, I am an excavator and curator of the detritus I’m surrounded by. My work employs hybridized media of image, object, and light to both seduce and unsettle when these fragments are brought together. I hope to expose my personal questions and impulses in an attempt to create universal connections between audience, artwork, and the personal archive we contend with.
The content within my work is driven by the suspension of belief. What are the boundaries of my belief in the digital and the physical? How does difference of belief affect my relationships with others? I question the validity of content I’m presented with and want the audience to question the validity of what I present to them. As image becomes virus, or image becomes culture, authorship can no longer be traced, and then image belongs to the public. I’m drawn to Jeremy Pilcher’s ideas of expanded photography in the digital age. From his perspective we are global wanderers and gatherers of information rather than food, our needs have transferred from the biological space to the transcendental. What then becomes our fuel, and how does my work feed both myself and others?
